Attachment for copy holding line indicating machines



Dec. 24, 1935. G. S/SMITH 2,025,313

ATTACHMENT FOR COPY HOLDING LINE INDICATING MACHINES Filed May 27, 1935 Patented Dec. 24, 1935 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE ATTACHMENT FOR COPY HOLDING LINE INDICATING MACHINES 4 Claims.

My present invention, relates to the provision of an attachment for copy holding, line indicating machines. Copy holding machines are devices for holding the manuscript or other copy in convenient position for the typist to follow while making a typewritten transcript thereof. Such machines, having a panel with means for detachably securing copy to the top of the panel provided with a line guide with means for feeding the panel with the copy attached vertically with respect to the line guide as the lines are read, are now upon the market. Such machines as are now obtainable are made in a number of sizes to take copy of different breadths, and if copy is wider or broader than the machine is designed for, a larger size of machine must be employed.

My object has been to provide an attachment for such a machine which will permit the use of the machine with much wider copy than it was designed to accommodate.

Another object of my invention is to provide an attachment which will permit the lowering or raising of the registry of the line guide. That is, by means of my attachment the relation of the line guide to the copy may be either elevated above or depressed below the position where the line guide provided with the machine rested upon the copy. Such an adjustment will often be found convenient and desirable.

I have attained the foregoing objects by means of the structure illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which Fig. l is a front elevation of the attachment.

Fig. 2 is a top plan thereof.

Fig. 3 is a vertical section, on line 33 of Fig. 1, showing the arrangement of clip by means of which the attachment is secured to the line guide of a copy holding machine.

Fig. 4 is a schematic elevation of the class of machine with which my attachment is designed to be associated.

Similar reference characters refer to similar parts throughout the respective views.

A typical copy holding, line guiding or indicating machine with which my invention is designed to cooperate consists of a base 5 supporting for vertical movement a panel 6, upon the top of which panel is provided means 1 for detachably holding copy. A line guide or indicator 8 is associated with the machine in such a way that by operating a lever 9 the panel with the copy attached is elevated and adjusted, predetermined distance to indicate the line which is next to be copied. The means by which the panel is moved and the distance that it is moved is no portion of the present invention.

My attachment consists of a blank Ill of sheet metal, or other suitable material, one edge ll whereof is bent to lie opposite to and parallel with the body of the blank. The curved or bent 5 portion between the turned up edge II and the body of the blank I 0 is cut away intermediate the ends of the blank to provide the slot l2. A strengthening or stiffening bead I3 is preferably provided in the bent up edge I l. Upon the back 1 of the blank I 0 is secured, by rivets or in any other desired way, the U-shaped spring clips M. In my experience two of such spring clips, suitably spaced from each other, have been all the attaching means that are either requisite or desirable.

By placing the attachment so that the original line guide 8 of the machine extends between the body of the blank and the adjacent portion of the U-clip' M the top of the bent-up edge H of the attachment functions as the line guide and is positioned generally somewhat lower than the top of the original line guide 8. If, on the other hand, the line guide is inserted under the outermost layer of the U-shaped spring clip, the bottom edge of the bent over portion H functions as the line guide and is generally disposed above the edge of the original line guide 8. It will, of course, be understood that when my attachment is in position and use the copy extends through the slot I 2 and not behind the original line guide 8.

It will be seen from the foregoing description, taken in connection with the drawing, that by means of this simple and inexpensive attachment that the smallest copy holding and line guiding machine may be adapted to operate with greater width of copy than the apparatus was designed to or capable of operating before, which relieves the possessor of such an attachment of the necessity of buying machines of different sizes and of accommodating such machines when purchased.

Having described my invention what I claim 45 is new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. An attachment for copy holding, line indicating apparatus comprising a blank formed to provide spaced, parallelly disposed strips with a slot or channel extending between said strips 50 to points adjacent their ends and means for attaching the rear of said strips to the line indicating element of a copy holding, line indicating machine.

2. An attachment for copy holding, line in- 5 dicating apparatus comprising a blank formed U-shaped spring clips extending from the rear to provide spaced, parallelly disposed strips of of said strips to the line indicating element of metal with a slot or channel extending between a copy holding, line indicating machine.

said strips to points adjacent their ends, and 4. A line indicating attachment for copy holdspring clips extending from the rear of said ing, line indicating machines consisting of a 5 strips to the line indicating element of a py front beaded strip and a back strip secured in holding, line indicating machine. spaced relation at their ends and means carried 3. An attachment for copy holding, line inby said back or rear strip for securing the same dicating apparatus comprising a blank formed to to a line indicating element of a copy holding provide spaced, parallelly disposed strips of and line indicating machine with either edge 10 metal with a slot or channel extending between of said strips which may be desired uppermost. said strips to points adjacent their ends, and GEORGE S. SMITH. 

